Dynamics of Pro-Market Institutions and Firm Performance
23 Pages Posted: 27 Aug 2018
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Dynamics of Pro-Market Institutions and Firm Performance
Date Written: June 2018
Abstract
We analyze how pro-market institutions affect firm performance in emerging markets. Integrating transaction costs and signaling theory, we advance three arguments. First, we separate four dynamic components of pro-market institutions: intensifying and fading pro-market reforms and intensifying and fading pro-market reversals. Second, we propose an asymmetric dynamic view whereby not only intensifying reforms but also fading reversals improve firm performance, while not only fading reforms but also intensifying reversals reduce performance. Finally, we argue that more efficient firms perform better under each of the dynamics. We test these arguments on a sample of 1092 firms from 34 emerging markets during 1998–2011.
Keywords: pro-market institutions, pro-market reversals, pro-market reforms, institutional economics, transaction costs, signaling theory, efficiency, performance, emerging markets
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